The research required to get LEED certification paid off in valuable knowledge about material, which has always been of interest to Edwards Anker. Throughout the day they throw wonderfully geometric blocks on colour onto interior surfaces. Instead, she used coloured glass skylights, with a palette based on colour theory published in 1810 by German artist and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which focuses in part on the effect of colour on human emotions. “Then I realized stone fireplaces are not anywhere near eco-friendly enough for me to even think of one.”Ī last-minute technical snafu mean Edwards Anker could not - as she had planned - install a type of skylight panels that would also collect solar energy. “When I started drawing the house in 2013, I had this romantic notion of a big stone fireplace,” she says. “And we got very lucky with the orientation of the site because the views were facing south, and the ocean breezes were coming in from the south.”Įven so, creating an ecologically-sound house was a learning curve. “I knew the starting point was along those principles,” she says. The other driver was a New York Passive House course Edwards Anker took. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.

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